Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by UHLOVÁ Saša, VRABEC Petr Zewlakk
A march advocating for restrictions on abortion access, organised by the Pro-Life Movement, was scheduled to pass through Prague on Saturday afternoon. Supporters of women’s right to choose blocked the march.
[Don’t surrender] even one metre to the patriarchy! | Photo by Petr Zewlakk Vrabec (…)
, by DUŠKOVÁ Magdalena
In a troubling development that highlights the growing influence of conservative ideology in corporate decision-making, BigBoard—the Czech Republic’s largest outdoor advertising provider—has rejected a campaign about abortion access from reproductive justice organisation A.S.A.P. (Abortion (…)
, by TARAN Aleksandra
In a Poland where abortion access depends on your bank balance, the struggle for reproductive rights reveals a stark class divide. This isn’t merely about personal freedom—it’s about economic justice. When working women carry the double burden of paid employment and unpaid domestic labor while (…)
, by MALEWSKI Jan
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in more than 70 Polish towns and cities on 6-8 November 2021, demanding, as they did last year, the right of women to choose, after the death of a pregnant woman in Pszczyna hospital while doctors waited for “the heart of the embryo to stop beating”. (…)
, par BOJOVIC Neva , STANISLJEVIC Jovana
Abortion access has never been equal in Europe. The right to terminate an unwanted or unviable pregnancy varies from Malta, where the procedure is illegal in all circumstances, to the Netherlands, which has some of the most liberal laws on the continent. Protesters took to (…)
, by KENNEDY Sinéad
On 25 May 2018, the Irish electorate voted to remove the notorious eighth amendment – Ireland’s ban on abortion – from the Irish constitution. The scale of the victory was enormous, with 66.4% of people voting “yes” to replacing Article 40.3.3° of the Constitution with an Article stating (…)
, by DĄBROWSKA-SZULC Ewa, MROZIK Agnieszka
Agnieszka Mrozik speaks with Ewa Dąbrowska-Szulc, President of Pro Femina Association, Poland on the actual and past protests against abortion laws, feminist organisation and on the history of women’s right to self-determination in Poland.
On 22 October 2020, the Polish Constitutional (…)
, by Fourth International
1. Mass revolt after a new attack on women
The women’s “black protest” in more than 100 cities and the women’s strike on “Black Monday” 3 October 2016 forced the fundamentalist right-wing Catholic regime led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party to back down on a bill to ban abortion completely (…)
, by GOLDSTEIN Piotr, SZCZYGIELSKA Marianna
On 22 October, Poland’s disputed new Constitutional Tribunal, whose members were appointed by Law and Justice (PiS), the country’s ruling right-wing party, banned nearly all abortions. This decision instantly sparked protests and strikes across Poland. Hundreds of thousands of women were joined (…)
, by ALCOY Philippe, ZAWISTOWSKA-TOCZEK Dagmara
Poland has seen enormous demonstrations unfold since October 22 when the Constitutional Court decided to ban abortion in almost all cases. It has been a big movement launched by women and the youth, but which different sectors of society have joined. A movement that has also become a catalyst (…)
, by HENLEY Jon
Mass demonstrations have exposed underlying anger at political and religious interference in people’s everyday lives
For 14 nights they have marched, enraged by a near-total ban on abortion that has stirred a generation to stage the largest mass demonstrations that Poland has seen since (…)
, by BRODER David, DZIEMIANOWICZ-BĄK Agnieszka
In recent days, Poland has seen its biggest protests in decades, with strikes and demonstrations against the harshened abortion ban. As MP Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk tells Jacobin, the movement is a lightning rod for frustrations at the country’s hard-right government — and can finally put (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
AFTER POLAND’S TRIBUNAL tightened its already strict abortion laws on October 22, 2020, protesters filled the streets, ignoring the ban–given the pandemic—on gatherings of more than five. Over the next several days there were a series of street blockades and demonstrations not only in the major (…)
, by DAVIES Christian
Women’s rights protesters incensed by the country’s strict new laws clash with rightwing gangs in the Polish capital
It was a surreal sight – and a terrible sound. On Friday evening, as tens of thousands of pro-choice protesters gathered in Warsaw for a massive demonstration against a (…)
, by MALISZ Zofia , Razem
Last Thursday, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal outlawed pregnancy termination in cases of severe and fatal congenital diseases of the fetus. Its verdict violates fundamental human rights and sentences generations of Polish women to personal tragedies and torture. Massive protests have erupted (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
On the 22nd of October, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal declared abortion for foetal malformation – one of the few remaining grounds for legal abortion – unconstitutional. By doing so the Tribunal is paving the way for an almost complete ban of abortion in Poland. During the global pandemic, (…)
, by MAJEWSKA Ewa
Last Friday, Poland’s Constitutional Court banned almost all abortion, as part of a wider Catholic-conservative offensive against women’s rights. But the ruling has already sparked strikes and blockades across Poland — and the working-class women least able to afford a clandestine abortion are (…)
, by GIUFFRIDA Angela
More than 100 women launch action as activists say practice is serious violation of human rights and privacy
A group of more than 100 Italian women have asked prosecutors to investigate who is behind the burial for nearly a decade of foetuses in graves marked with the names of their mothers (…)
, par POLLITT Katha
Ireland’s wildly successful movement to repeal the Eighth Amendment has given us a new way to frame reproductive rights.
“There must be a way to make abortion rights be about love,” the journalist Anthea McTeirnan said to me when we met in Dublin in 2015, just before Ireland’s referendum on (…)
, by GRAHAM-HARRISON Emma, McDONALD Henry, O’CARROLL Lisa
Leo Varadkar vows legal terminations by end of year after huge vote for change. Ireland to start abortion law reform after historic vote.
History is made as Ireland votes to repeal anti-abortion laws – video report Ireland has voted by a landslide to legalise abortion in a stunning outcome (…)
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